Data Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Data Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Data Engineer salary in the City of London is £83,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
30 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 104 140
Rank change year-on-year +21 +36 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 54 80 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 2.78% 2.39% 1.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.99% 2.49% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 40 66 80
10th Percentile £57,500 £28,250 £46,125
25th Percentile £61,875 £50,000 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £68,250 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.71% -11.94% +5.08%
75th Percentile £96,375 £77,500 £95,313
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £82,500 £68,500 £78,750
% change year-on-year +20.44% -13.02% +8.62%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,807 3,213 4,331
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.19% 96.17% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,368 2,519 3,610
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,225
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,875 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,441 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -2.08% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £74,744
% change year-on-year - -3.00% +3.10%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the City of London

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the City of London.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the City of London

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the City of London

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the City of London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 41 (75.93%) SQL
2 39 (72.22%) Azure
3 30 (55.56%) ETL
4 28 (51.85%) Python
4 28 (51.85%) Databricks
5 22 (40.74%) Social Skills
6 20 (37.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 20 (37.04%) AWS
7 19 (35.19%) Agile
7 19 (35.19%) Analytics
8 17 (31.48%) Data Pipeline
8 17 (31.48%) Data Science
9 16 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (29.63%) Data Modelling
10 15 (27.78%) Data Warehouse
11 14 (25.93%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (25.93%) Data Management
12 13 (24.07%) GCP
13 12 (22.22%) Data Engineering
13 12 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
13 12 (22.22%) Degree
13 12 (22.22%) Computer Science
13 12 (22.22%) Data Lake
13 12 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
14 11 (20.37%) Scala
14 11 (20.37%) Analytical Skills
15 10 (18.52%) DevOps
15 10 (18.52%) Law
15 10 (18.52%) Containerisation
15 10 (18.52%) Computer Science Degree

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.41%) Apache
2 3 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 39 (72.22%) Azure
2 20 (37.04%) AWS
2 20 (37.04%) Azure Data Factory
3 13 (24.07%) GCP
4 7 (12.96%) Power Platform
5 5 (9.26%) Serverless
6 4 (7.41%) dbt
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (3.70%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (3.70%) GitHub
9 1 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.85%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.85%) PaaS
9 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (27.78%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (22.22%) Data Lake
3 8 (14.81%) SQL Server
4 7 (12.96%) Metadata
4 7 (12.96%) Power BI
5 6 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (9.26%) Relational Database
7 3 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (5.56%) Big Data
7 3 (5.56%) Power Query
7 3 (5.56%) Tableau
8 2 (3.70%) Data Mining
8 2 (3.70%) Delta Lake
8 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.70%) Parquet
9 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.85%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.85%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.85%) Looker
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.85%) JIRA
General
1 22 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.37%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (18.52%) Law
4 7 (12.96%) Finance
5 2 (3.70%) Banking
5 2 (3.70%) Legal
6 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.85%) Front Office
6 1 (1.85%) Marketing
6 1 (1.85%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.81%) ARM Templates
2 7 (12.96%) PySpark
3 2 (3.70%) GraphQL
3 2 (3.70%) pytest
4 1 (1.85%) Apache Avro
4 1 (1.85%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.85%) Flask
4 1 (1.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
1 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
1 1 (1.85%) FMCG
1 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.70%) Linux
2 1 (1.85%) Unix
2 1 (1.85%) Windows
2 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (55.56%) ETL
2 19 (35.19%) Agile
2 19 (35.19%) Analytics
3 17 (31.48%) Data Pipeline
3 17 (31.48%) Data Science
4 16 (29.63%) Data Modelling
4 16 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (25.93%) Data Management
5 14 (25.93%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
6 12 (22.22%) Computer Science
6 12 (22.22%) Data Engineering
6 12 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (18.52%) Containerisation
7 10 (18.52%) DevOps
8 9 (16.67%) Decision-Making
9 8 (14.81%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 8 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (14.81%) Network Virtualisation
9 8 (14.81%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 41 (75.93%) SQL
2 28 (51.85%) Python
3 11 (20.37%) Scala
4 8 (14.81%) Java
5 7 (12.96%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.85%) C++
7 1 (1.85%) Cypher
7 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (22.22%) Degree
2 10 (18.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (16.67%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.85%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 8 (14.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (16.67%) Terraform
2 8 (14.81%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.85%) Ansible
3 1 (1.85%) Grafana
3 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (51.85%) Databricks
2 9 (16.67%) Google
3 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.85%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.85%) Informatica
18 Data Engineer jobs in Central London